Khaled Hosseini’s frictional drama, “The Kite Runner”, is about how Amir and Hassan have been together since infancy and they are best friends even though Hassan is Amir’s servant. Hassan must even protect Amir against Assef, the neighborhood bully, because he does not stand up for himself. Hassan loves when Amir reads to him when they sit under a pomegranate tree. They both are the towns kite flying champions. When they win the tournament Hassan even offers to run and get the kite and says to Amir, “ for you a Thousand times over” (pg. 67). They both seem to care about one another deeply, but Amir disgraces himself by betraying Hassan and the narrative follows him through his life as he tries to make amends for the wrong he commits. It was the beginning of the end of Amir and Hassan’s friendship when Amir went looking for Hassan after the kite flying tournament and he saw him get raped by Assef. This is the main betrayal against Hassan that Amir commits. Hassan had always stood up for Amir no matter what, and according to Noors’ literary analysis, when it mattered for Amir to stand up for himself and his friend, Amir left Hassan out to dry (237). This was foreshadowed when Baba was talking to Karim and said that if Amir did not stand up for himself he never will. The Irony in this is that Baba did the same thing to Ali but doesn’t admit it. There is foreshadowing in this because even though Baba did wrong and betrayed his best friend he is a good person now by the acts he performs. This gives the idea that there is hope for Amir to eventually redeem himself. Amir has the problem of being weak and not standing up for himself or others. He begins to pick on Hassan. When Hassan did nothing back and smashed a pomegranate on his own head it showed that he was the bigger man. This ate Amir on the inside because Hassans’ good behavior was a constant reminder of how he had failed as a man, and if Hassan had been in his shoes he would’ve done everything to save Amir. Being unable to deal with the overbearing guilt of b